Everything that you do now in Venezuela has some how to do with how the country is being handled. For instance you run out of milk then you have to have a conversation with others about the fact that you can't get milk because you have to buy a certain amount of milk, a certain day of the week, because of certain political decisions that were taken. Everything that happens in the country, happens inside of that discourse and you have to locate yourself somewhere in the political spectrum and take a position.

There's always a way to make the other person shut up. Shut up you work in a ministry. Shut up you left. Shut up you received a scholarship. Shut up you went to a public university. Shut up you follow the government. There is always a reason why you shouldn't give your opinion or you shouldn't participate. And this is not only people who follow the government. This is something that has become kind of general. Now that I am outside the country, both parties absolutely silence me. I really have no right of opinion, even if there are things that I understand now that I wouldn't understand if I had not left the country.